Apparatus for forming a liquid fuel



A. HAYES. APPARATUS FOR FORMING A LIQUID FUELI APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5,1919.

Patenfed. May16, 192

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citizen of the United States, residing at P New York. in the county of New York,

State of New York, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Forming a Liquid Fuel, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a arthereof' p y invention relates to apparatus for forming a liquid fuel for useiin explosion be readily vaporized in an ordinary carengines and for. other purposes and has for its object to produce an apparatuswhich will be simple in construction, relatively inexens'ive in construction and operation and will effective to produce from ingredients of relatively low cost, aliquid fuel which will be of a permanent character adapted-for safelystored and transported and will P I buretor "to form an explosive mixture adapted for explosion engine use.

With these and 'ther objects hereinafter more fully explained in view. my invention consists the apparatus hereinafter de scribed and claimed.

The drawing shows in di .u u atic term 7 and partly in section, an vappratus'embody- 30' ing my invention.

a In the drawing 1 indicates-a an; in whicha is placed a mixture of the ingredients from which the liquid fuel is to bemade, this mixture preferably consisting of a relatively heavy hydrocarbon oil of high flash point,

. alcohol, pneferably wood alcoholf, and relatively light hydrocarbon oils -0 flash point, the heavy hydrocarbon oiland the alcohol being the principal ingredients. 'lhis tank is adapted to sustain a considerable air pressure'and is provided with a pressure gage :2, and an inlet 3 for introducing'the mixture .and also for supplying the air under pressure, and within the tank is arranged" an agitator 4 carried by a shaft 5 extending through a suitable jgland t5 and having a pulley 'Z on its outer end.

A pipe 8 leads from near the bottom of the tank to a pipe 9 which extends downward into a vertically arranged catalytic chamber 10, and terminates near the bottom of the catalyticchamber so as to discharge the mixture into the lower end thereof. This chamber isfilled with va mixture of n. of burned clay rich in aluminum,

. Application filed June 5,

" nd which maybe the so called fire brick or may be ordinary brick, and relatively small very low terial, means for heating duit extend from the bottom of the tank Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented B law 16 11922,

1919. Serial no. 302,065.

ieces of metallic zinc and nickel, the zinc andnickel being well distributed among the vfragments of burned clay. This catalyst is arranged to be heated by a burner 12 and is enclosed in a casing 11. i

From near the upper end ofthe catalytic I chamber a. pipe 13 leads to a worm 14 of a' condenser arranged as in the usual condenser, in a, tank adapted to contain water for cooling the worm and causing the vapors supplied to it to becooled and condensed. Y

In operation, the mixture of heavy hydrocarbon oil, alcohol and light hydrocarbon oils being placed in the tank 1 and the a-gitator being operated to mix the ingredients thoroughly, the tank isclosed and air sup-, lied under pressure sufiicient to feed the mixture to the catalyst, the feed being regulated by a suitable valve in the pipe 9. lhe mixture passes to the catalytic chamber being delivered at its bottom, where, it is subjected to direct action of the heat from the burner 12.which converts the mixture into vapor and this vaporrises through the spaces between the with which the chamber is filled and is so acted on by the material that a compound vapor of a permanent character is' formed whichis adapted for use as the basis for an explosive mixture. Of course for purposes of storage and transportation, this vapor must be reduced to liquid form and this is readily efiected by the condenser.

By the use of the agitator, the ingredients from which the liquid is. to be made are kept from separating and arefcarried to the cata lyst as amechanical mixture'and are vaporized as a mixture. The efiect of the catalyst is to convert this mixture into a stable compound. a

I do notherein claim the method carried out bythe herein described apparatus since that method is claimedin'application Senal No. 302,066, filed June 5,1919.

' Having thus described my invention what llclaim'is;"

1. An apparatustor to =11:- a l quid fuel comprising the combination 0 a tank; havents ofi material 1 mg an'inlet and an agitatcnwithin the tank, acatalytic chamber contaming catal 1c mathe latter, a conto the catalytic chamber, a condenser and a conduit connecting it to the catalytic chamber. 7

7 2. An apparatus for making fuel comprising a tank having an opening therein and an agitator, a catalytic chamber containing catalytic material, said chamber being closed, a pipe extending from the bottom of the tank into the catalytic chamber down to near its bottom, means for heating the cata-} lytic chamber, and an exit pipe near the top of the catalytic chamber.

An apparatus for forming a liqiiid fuel comprising the combination of a tank hav ing an inlet and an agitator positioned Within the tank, a catalytic chamber containing;

catalytic material,a conduit extending from Y an inlet and an agitator positioned Within the tank, a catalytic. chamber containing catalytic material, a conduit from the tank to the catalytic chamber, and a condenser arranged to receive vapors from the catalyticchamber. i i

, Intestimony whereof I aifix my 'signature this 5th day of J 1111c, 1919,

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